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Modern Game Testing

You're reading from Modern Game Testing Learn how to test games like a pro, optimize testing effort, and skyrocket your QA career

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803244402

Length 232 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Game Design

Authors (2):

Kalle Kaivola

Nikolina Finska

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Game Testing Foundation

2. Chapter 1: Setting the Stage – Introduction to QA for Modern Games FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: All Engines Go – The Basics of Game QA

4. Chapter 3: A Deeper Look – Types of Testing in Games

5. Chapter 4: Deeper Look – Testing on Various Gaming Platforms – Mobile, PC, and Console

6. Chapter 5: It Must Be Hardware: Testing Hardware in Modern Game QA

7. Part 2: Test Strategy and Execution

8. Chapter 6: Friend or Foe – Test Cases

9. Chapter 7: It Works on My Machine: Bug Flow

10. Chapter 8: I Thought I Fixed That: How to Write Efficient Bug Reports

11. Chapter 9: It Works, but It Hasn’t Been Tested: Testing Approach

12. Chapter 10: Eat, Sleep, Test, Repeat: Test Methodology

13. Part 3: Test Management and Beyond

14. Chapter 11: Are You on the Right Version? Live Ops and QA

15. Chapter 12: Beyond Testing – Introduction to Test Management

16. Chapter 13: There Are No BUGS Without U – QA and the Game Team

17. Index

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18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing on Google Play

Android is today the most widely used platform in the world. Over 3 billion people used Android phones in 2022 (source: https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-android/). While iOS is the most common platform in the USA, almost everywhere else in the world, Android is dominant, giving it a global market share of 86.1%.

While Google bought Android in 2005, we need to be careful not to use the term Android and Google Play interchangeably, as Google Play is just one of the marketplaces on Android, albeit by far the most popular one.

Google Play is one of the most approachable platforms; it is relatively easy to publish games and the requirements are not particularly strict. To be able to publish games and other apps on Google Play, you just need to register as a developer, which is a simple and relatively cheap process. The requirements for Google Play submission are easy to follow and are not excessively strict. You can always find the most recent requirements...

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Authors (2)

Finska

Finska

Nikolina Finska is a Gaming industry Veteran and QA guru with over ten years of expertise in the game sector and another 10 in the software industry. She was nominated for ‘Tester of the Year' by the Finnish Testing Association for her contributions to QA methods. She has worked on over 20 games and was in charge of quality assurance on various Angry Birds franchise games. She has done practically every type of QA in the past, from localization to live OPS, on a variety of platforms, including massive databases, the web, and every imaginable gaming platform. She is also a guest lecturer for QA and Production at various Finnish universities like Amiedu and KAMK.

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